%0 Journal Article %T A Canonical Laplacian on the Algebra of Densities on a Projectively Connected Manifold %A Jacob George %J Mathematics %D 2009 %I arXiv %X On a manifold with a projective connection we canonically assign a second order differential operator acting on the algebra of all densities to any tensor density $S^{ij}$ of fixed weight $\lambda$. In particular, this implies that on any projectively connected manifold, a `bracket' (symmetric biderivation) on the algebra of functions extends canonically to the algebra of densities. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/0909.5411v1